I7ctronic Industries 1955 WEST COAST ISSUE WESCON SAN FRANCISCO Au6ust 24 26 CO HARE THIS Route to Pleose August 1955 In 2 Sections Section 1 Caldw eli- Clements, Inc. www.americanradiohistory.com Using Ceramic Capacitors? Specify RMC DISCAPS Temperature Compensating Heavy -Duty These DISCAPS meet all elec- RMC Type B "Heavy- Duty" R Sc trical specifications of the DISCAPS are designed for all RTMA standard REC- 107 -A. by -pass or filtering applications Small size, lower self inductance and meet or exceed the RTMA and greater dielectric strength REC -107 -A specifications for adapt them for VHF and UHF type Z5Z ceramic capacitors. applications. Type C DISCAPS Rated at 1000 V.D.C.W., Type are rated at 1000 working volts B DISCAPS cost no more than providing a high safety factor. lighter constructed units. Avail- Available in six sizes in all re- able in standard capacities be- quired capacities and tempera- tween 470 MMF and 40,000 ture coefficients. MMF. Type JL Type JL DISCAPS afford ex- ceptional stability over an ex- The exclusive wedge design of tended temperature range. They the leads on these DISCAPS are especially engineered for .02 lock them in place on printed applications requiring a mini- circuit assemblies prior to the mum capacity change as tem- soldering operation. "Wedg- perature varies between -60 °C Loc" DISCAPS are available in and +110 °C. The maximum capacities between 2 MMF and capacity change between these 20,000 MMF in TC, by -pass extremes is only 4 7.5% of and stable capacity types. Sug- capacity at 25 °C. gested hole size is an .062 square. High Voltage Plug -in Special high voltage DISCAPS RMC Plug -in DISCAPS will are available in a wide range of speed up production time in capacities for color television and printed circuit operations. Leads other electronic applications. are constructed of No. 20 tinned RMC DISCAPS for deflection copper (.032 diameter) and are yokes insure the voltage safety available up to 1 %" in length. factor required in this applica- Manufactured in TC, by -pass tion. They are available in all and stable capacity types, Plug - capacities between 5 MMF and in DISCAPS have all the elec- 330 MMF. trical and mechanical features of standard DISCAPS. Write today on your company letterhead for expert engineering help on any capacitor problem. DISCAP CERAMIC RADIO MATERIALS CORPORATION CAPACITORS GENERAL OFFICE: 3325 N. California Ave., Chicago 18, III. FACTORIES AT CHICAGO, ILL. AND ATTICA, IND. Two RMC Plants Devoted Exclusively to Ceramic Capacitors www.americanradiohistory.com In 2 Sections Section 2 August 1955 TELE -TECH E. Electronic Industries 1955 Directory of the West Coast Electronic Indus tries This directory contains the latest and most complete alphabeti- cal listing of some 462 leading manufacturers in the West Coast electronic industries. Each listing contains the company name, address, name of chief engineer or key person to contact, telephone number. The principal proprietary items (p) and avionic items (a) manufactured are also indicated. Companies preceded with an asterisk are Eastern or Midwestern firms with manufacturing facilities on the West Coast. This is the fourth con- secutive annual directory of the western electronic industries published by TELE -TECH & ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES. Acme Camera 2704 W Olive Ave Burbank Air Transport Mfg 1114 N Sycamore Ave American Elect Mfg Co 9503 W Jefferson Applied Physics 362 W Colorado St Pasa- Callflohn Kiel -VI 9 -3144 (p) TV Recdg Los Angeles 38 Calif -E L Hollywood 1r- Blvd Culver City Calif -1 Yablanka -TE dena Calif- Howard Cary-SY 6 -0197 (p) Cameras HO 7 -5175 (a) Harness Assemblies 0 -5581 (p) Control Motors Electrometers Acme Electric 1375 W Jefferson Blvd Los Allied Electronic Equip Bidg 604 Oakland American Helicopter Div Fairchild Engine & Arnoux Corp 1357 Hawthorne Blvd Haw- Angeles 7 Calif -RE 4 -3194 (p) Trans- Airport Oakland 14 Calif -E Crandall -LO Airplane Rosecrans Ave Manhattan thorne Calif -R W Hodgson -OS 5 -4483 formers 2-1400 (p) Headsets (a) Headsets 1800 Beach Measuring System (a) Temp Acousti Craft 14122 Aetna St Van Nuys Allison Labs 14185 Skyline Dr Puente Calif - Calif -Lewis Emmerich -OS 6 -1138 (p) Temp Calif -G L Burch -ST 6-0676 (p) Spkr C L Stevens -OX 4 -4056 (p) Passive Net- (p) Bridge Bal-nce Units Indicating Systems Enclosures work Filters American Microphone AM Elgin National Assembly Products Desert Hot Springs Adel Precision Products Div General Metals Aloha Radio 330 W Bdwy Long Beach 2 Watch 370 S Fair Oaks Ave Pasadena Calif -John Saint -Armour (p) Contact Corp 10777 Van Owen St Burbank Calif - Calif -H Putnam Best -747.16 (p) Marine Calif -1 Brown -SY 6-9008 (p) Micro- Meter Relays 1 W Kelly -SU 2 -1131 (p) Precision Air- Receivers phones Associated Missile Products 2709 N Gamey craft Equip (a) Precision Aircraft Equip Alpar Mfg 2910 Spring St. Redwood City Thermo -Electric 7269 Santa Ave Pomona Calif -R F CrispLY 4-0104 Advance Electric & Relay 2435 N Naomi St Calif -C B Parmenter -EM 8 -4701 (p) American Calif - Missile Prod- Burbank Calif -V C HuckabeeTH 2-8191 Cable Analyzer (a) Cable Analyzer Monica Blvd Los Angeles 46 (p) Tube Comparator (a) (p) Relays (a) Relays Altee Lansing 9356 Santa Monica Blvd Abraham Levy -HO 4-1632 (p) Vacuum uct Test Equip Aerovox Corp Pacific Coast Div 2724 Peck Beverly Hills Calif -Dr E M Honan -CR 5- Thermocouples (a) Vacuum Thermo- Audio Products 2265 Westwood Blvd In Rd Monrovia Calif - Morgan Harris -RY 5101 (p) Spkrs, Amplifiers (a) Trans- couples Angeles 64 Calif -F H Pruss -BR 2 -4266 1 -5621 (p) Amplifiers (p) Voltage Controlled Oscillators (a) formers Ampex Corp 934 Charter St Redwood City Airad Co Telemetering 5956 Hester Ave Van Nuys Calif - Alto Scientific 4037 El Camino Way Palo Calif -John Leslie -EM 8 -1471 (p) Tape Systems Geo Hewitt -ST 0 -2531 (p) Sheet Metal Allo Calif -L L Libby -DA 4 -4733 Avery Adhesive Label 1616 S California Ave (p) Recorders (a) Data Recorders Fabr Grid Dip Ose. Monrovia Calif -Harry Hoffman -EL 8 -2524 Electronics 1246 Folsom St San Airborne Electronics Co 6813 Troost Ave N Amelco Inc 2040 Colorado Ave Santa Applied (p) Pressure- sensitive Tapes Francisco 3 Calif -S S Konigsberg -MA Hollywood Calif -L W Cannon -PO 5 -1351 Monica Calif -G A CarlsonEX 3.7281 Avionex Electronics 2838 N Naomi St Bur Marine Radiotelephones (p) Test Equip (p) Continuity Meter 1 -2634 (p) bank Calif-I G Davidson -TH 2 -2381 (p) Copyright, August, 1955 by Caldwell -Clements, Inc., 480 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. TELE -TECH & ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES August 1955 1 www.americanradiohistory.com BUILDING BLOCKS Monuluctu ing N Manufacturing, produ t development and re eorch Marwlacly ing and product development DIG îlot manufacturing, product development and research PRECISION N ,ECHANICS, OPTICAL DEVICES, CERAMICS N ON N N N 00 N MD OEM EL ECTRICAL EQUIPMENT and COMPONENTS 000 N N ELECTRONICS 0410 N N N N 000 0 HYDRAULICS, LIQUIDS PROCESSING, HEAT EXCHANGE 00 WW1 TELEVISION Studio, Theatre, Educational, Business, Industrial - INSTRUMENTS, SERVOS, CONTROLS Hydraulic, Pneumatic, Magnetic, Electronic NON N AIRCRAFT and MI SILE GUIDANCE, CONTROL, SIMULATION ON ON N N 4100 AU 'OMATIC COMPUTERS and COMPONENTS 000 ON N RADAR, MICROWAVE, ULTRASONICS 000 N ON 00 OTION PICTURE and AUDIO EQUIPMENT 000 o.. N N NUCLEA R POWER COMPONENTS and CONTROLS 000 N SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Aeronautical, Naval, Industrial N/ N 11100 UZ aZ Op ZOZpW a<zz Z WZ O O OZ Z u- `` 7, < .< .c.5 O O< W Z pp ó vÓ Ñ,. THE GPE Ó p = O úó LL Ó p Q FL, = mó PRODUCING ip 'Ó Ó i p W o Ó ó u COMPANIES " Z < rru < z Z ó W in W Z ru E ' O < m 0 Z Z www.americanradiohistory.com une at a series telling how the producing companies of General Precision Equipment Corporation are contributing to America's progress. advanced techniques 8 resources The producing companies of General Precision Equipment Corporation are engaged in the development, production and sale of advanced technological prod- ucts. Each of these companies specializes in particular areas of advanced com- petence and possesses highly developed techniques and resources in its particular field or fields. These are the building blocks of GPE Coordinated Precision Tech- nology, through which GPE serves more than a dozen important industries. The chart at the left shows the areas in which each GPE Producing Company works. But it cannot show the high degree of specialization and the important position each GPE Company occupies in its field or fields. The "Bullet" TV Camera; for industriol, institutional and educational use. Produces Take TELEVISION, for instance, and the work of useful pictures under conditions of poor light; General Precision Laboratory Incorporated, the GPE leader in feeds any TV receiver or monitor; unique packaging permits placement in ordinarily the field. LPL's research, development and manufacturing activi- inaccessible areas; unitized construction ties in TV are concerned with quality equipment for theatre, studio, business, with plug -in component chassis minimizes industrial, institutional and military TV and do not relate to the home TV field. maintenance requirements. ç GPL equipment was used for all video recording of the Coronation, both U. S. Intermediate Size and Canadian. It is by used 90% of the studios equipped for video recording. Projection TV System; q The first appearance of a President on closed- circuit TV- President Eisenhower projects bright, clear speaking from pictures on screens from the White House to distinguished guests at the dedication of the 3'x 4' to 9' to 12' Ford Research Center in Dearborn-was projected on GPL theatre equipment, Completely producing fine quality pictures up to (i5 feet wide.